Questions about Gender Dysphoria

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(12-03-2015, 04:21 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Okay, so when it comes to gender, there are no longer any traditional roles or qualities. Women can be tough, can be the bread winners in a family, be into cars, porno, etc. and men can cry and be sensitive, like fashion, etc. Correct?

Basically, outside of childbirth and breastfeeding, there's nothing one can say or do anymore that society says is strictly a man's role or a woman's role, correct?

If this is true (and I'm not saying it isn't), then why is there still such a thing as gender dysphoria? If society says that their are no longer gender-specific roles or characteristics, then how can I ever say "I'm a woman" though I've got a penis? How can one claim to feel like a woman if there is no one "right" way to feel like a woman or vice versa?

Just to be clear: I'm not trying to make a point. I'm genuinely curious as to how society can say that men and women are NOT different other than reproductive organs and then say that if you're born with a vagina, it's okay to say you're a man?

I've got an open mind and would like to find an answer.

Thanks.

Society is somewhat tolerant of fluidity in some characteristics and roles, but there are still rigid divisions between genders. Gender will always be binary because sex is, for argument's sake, binary. There will always be a gender associated with each sex. Those who do not identify to the gender that is associated with their sex will always be a small minority, not enough to ever really challenge the binary nature of it. Since there will always be these rigid divisions, despite stay at home dads or women with buzz cuts, you will always have people who are born and grow up feeling like they cannot identify with the gender associated with their sex.

Since these people will always exist, you will always have the possibility that they feel distress about this. That is why gender dysphoria still exists.